What Doctors Don't Tell YouThe SSRI group of antidepressants - including fluoxetine and paroxetine - are no more effective and have no fewer side effects than the older tricyclic antidepressants, according to an overview of six double-blind studies (Curr Ther Res, 1993; 54).
The new generation of antidepressants such as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) may be more dangerous than their predecessors for the elderly, the most common group of users. ...
The new breed of antidepressants, such as Prozac, is no better at treating depression than older drugs, researchers have found. ...
The lungs may be acting as a reservoir for antidepressants, causing toxic effects in the blood and brain, says a recent report from Japan. ...
QUIS CUSTODIET IPSOS CUSTODIES? It’s all Greek to our medical watchdog
Virtually no drug is licensed for use by the young, so a warning from a UK drugs watchdog about the antidepressant Seroxat (paroxetine) is perplexing.
The arrival of the SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), such as Prozac, in the early 1990s was greeted by the medical profession as the final solution to depression. Here was a class of drugs that appeared to lift depression
ANTIDEPRESSANTS: Yes, there is a safer and better way
The so-called ‘atypical antipsychotic drugs’ have been hailed as a pharmaceutical breakthrough and have, by now, largely replaced the old guard of neuroleptics. However, a recent overview of these modern medicines questions the claim that this new...
SSRIs are promoted as having fewer unwanted effects than alternatives, to be more acceptable to more patients and to be safer in overdose (and thus to decrease the risk of suicide). Two independent meta-analyses,
